Mubarak 'would like to step down, but fears chaos'

CAIRO - Egypt's embattled President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview on Thursday as deadly protests raged for a tenth day that he would like to step aside, but he feared the country would be engulfed in chaos. The 82-year-old veteran president said he was "fed-up with being president and would like to leave office now, but cannot, he says, for fear that the country would sink into chaos," ABC television's Christiane Amanpour reported after an interview in Cairo. Mubarak spoke as deadly clashes between his opponents and supporters raged for a second day and after his vice president urged protesters to go home, also criticising their demands for the president's ouster as a "call for chaos." On Tuesday night, Mubarak -- who has ruled for three decades -- had announced he would not stand for election to a sixth term in September, but would finish his mandate to guarantee an ...